Ed, You are asking two questions - I'm on PC, so I can't help much on Mac, but you might be able to transfer what I'm about to type:
A) .tar and .gz files are zip formats, which can be unzipped on PC with WinZip or WinRAR (and probably many other things). I don't understand why, but I have to unzip .tar.gz to give me a .tar, which needs unzipping again to get to the goodies inside. B) Once you have your .abc file, things don't get much easier. There may be a better way, but what I do is: 1) put the .abc files into the same directory as abctab2ps.exe 2) go into DOS and find the directory 3) on the command line enter:- abctab1~ [infile].abc 4) This will give me a file out.ps in postscript format. I imagine that if I did abctab1~ [infile].abc [outfile].ps I could do a series of conversions without overwriting out.ps. In other words, and I would imagine that this is the same on Mac, you need to use it from the command line. Good luck, Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lute list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:00 AM Subject: ABCtab Archive > Could anyone give me some help using abctab2ps? I downloaded it and > it says drag a file onto the icon, but how do you get a file? I went > to ABCtab Archive > http://msg.science.uva.nl/~walstra/ABCArchive/index.html and when I > click on a file, it opens up into code in a frame. The other choice > is to download a PDF (Postscript version of all files: machaut.tar.gz > ), but clicking that downloads a file called machaut.tar.gz that > doesn't open 'because the application that created it can't be found'. > > I'm using a Mac using System 9.1. Are there any tab programs that are > available to Mac users that are GUI? > > TIA > > -- > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > --
